Adventure Comics
#39
(June 1939)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1939-05-03
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Detective Comics Inc.
- Editing
- Vin Sullivan (editor)
Issue Notes
No number or date in indicia. On-sale date from copyright renewal.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- jungle
- Synopsis
- Africans and man tied to stake.
- Reprints
-
in Radio Funnies [ashcan] (DC, 1939 series) #1 (March 1939) -
in Collection Fantôme (Editions Mondiales, 1945 series) #[53] [with alterations]
-
- Keywords
- bondage
Indexer Notes
Art credits per Scott Bonagofsky from his discussions with Creig Flessel, who we previously credited for this cover.
[The Suicide of Major Duval, Part 2]
Barry O'Neill / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Synopsis: Barry and Inspector Legrand, while flying to investigate trouble at the Maignon Line..."
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Count Guniff (villain)
[no title indexed]
Tiny / comic story / 0.75 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oboy -- It feels swell to sink my teeth into dis rubber...
- Genre
- humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals
[Rosati Accordion Ad]
Rosati Accordion / advertisement / 0.25 page
Indexer Notes
In comic-strip format.
[The White Witch, Part 2]
Cotton Carver / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Cotton Carver, fleeing from the soldiers of the White Queen Kothe..."
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Vosgoth (introduction); Dagan (introduction)
[no title indexed]
Federal Men / comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Shuster (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How many?" "Fill 'er up all th' way!
- Genre
- detective-mystery; crime
- Characters
- a custodian (villain, introduction)
- Reprints
- in Reefer Madness Comics (Dark Horse, 2018 series) (April 2018)
-
- Keywords
- marijuana
Indexer Notes
Marijuana story
[no title indexed]
Junior Federal Men Club / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hello again, Members! Well, here we are right in the middle of Spring...
[W. C. Fields, Charles Laughton, Luise Rainer, Joe E. Brown, Clark Gable, Walt Disney]
Cinema Dust / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Characters
- W. C. Fields; Luise Rainer; Clark Gable; Joe E. Brown; Charles Laughton; Walt Disney
[no title indexed]
Jack Woods / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- After cleaning up the outlaws, we find Jack once more on the trail...
- Genre
- western-frontier; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Wolf Rucker (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
Last appeared in More Fun Comics (DC, 1936 series) #35. The first two pages are in black, white, and red; the last two are in black and white.
[no title indexed]
Batter Up! / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He's so fast that by the time he reaches third...
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
6 gags.
Letterer credit courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[First Pilot to Fly a Plane in an Outside Loop!]
AiRecords / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; aviation
Auctioneer Dossier
Steve Malone / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
Indexer Notes
Story is in black and white, except feature logo panel which is in red tones.
[Captured By Col. Benback, Part 1]
Captain Desmo / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Through the dimly lit streets of Tashab..."
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Col. Benback (villain, introduction)
Indexer Notes
Story is in black and white, except feature logo panel which is in red tones.
[Young Adventurer Narrowly Escapes Death in Battle with Attacking Shark!]
AdventurEvents / cartoon / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction; adventure
[no title indexed]
Tidbits / cartoon / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There are approximately 4,000,000 amateur actors in America...
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Joe Louis; Harvey Aulback, Jr.
[no title indexed]
Tom Brent / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Far up the Sang Do River Tom Brent guides a small junk...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Hong (villain, introduction, death)
Indexer Notes
Last appearance. Story is in black and white, except feature logo panel which is in red tones.
[no title indexed]
Skip Schuyler / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Skip Schuyler, ace man of the U.S. Army Intelligence Department, has been stationed...
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The New York Yankees [Lou Gehrig; Joe DiMaggio; Frankie Crosetti; Red Rolfe; Spud Chandler; Flash Gordon (??); etc.] (guests)
- Reprints
- Keywords
- baseball
[The Pirate Ship, Part 14]
Rusty and His Pals / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Rusty and his friends capture Slade and his gang of counterfeiters..."
- Genre
- adventure; children
- Characters
- Duchess (guest); Ebenezer Slade (villain); Long Sin (villain)
Argentina Pulls Lion's Tail
Adventure in Stamps / text article / 2 pages
- Keywords
- Falkland Islands
Indexer Notes
Includes secondary "Interesting Stamp Items" column and small ads for stamp dealers.
[no title indexed]
Anchors Aweigh! / comic story / 5 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our two heroes of the United States fleet, Don Kerry and "Red" Murphy...
- Genre
- adventure; military
- Characters
- Lieutenant Colonel Don Kerry; "Red" Murphy; a maniac (villain, introduction, death (eaten by a gator))
- Synopsis
- Don and Red are given a furlough and decide to go alligator hunting. Instead, they stumble across an ex-engineer's plot to bomb a Panama Canal lock.
- Keywords
- alligators; Chagres River
Indexer Notes
wikipedia lists there are no alligators in Central America. Instead, this must be the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus).
[no title indexed]
Movie Comics; All-American Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thanks again, boys and girls of America...
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. House ad featuring cover repros for Movie Comics (DC, 1939 series) #4 and All-American Comics (DC, 1939 series) #4.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
-
1.
[no title indexed]
Johnson Smith & Co. -
2.
[The Suicide of Major Duval, Part 2]
Barry O'Neill -
3.
["Oboy -- It feels swell to sink my teeth into dis rubber..."]
Tiny -
4.
[Rosati Accordion Ad]
Rosati Accordion -
5.
[The White Witch, Part 2]
Cotton Carver -
6.
["How many?" "Fill 'er up all th' way!"]
Federal Men -
7.
["Hello again, Members! Well, here we are right in the middle of Spring..."]
Junior Federal Men Club -
8.
[W. C. Fields, Charles Laughton, Luise Rainer, Joe E. Brown, Clark Gable, Walt Disney]
Cinema Dust -
9.
["After cleaning up the outlaws, we find Jack once more on the trail..."]
Jack Woods -
10.
["He's so fast that by the time he reaches third..."]
Batter Up! -
11.
[First Pilot to Fly a Plane in an Outside Loop!]
AiRecords -
12.
Auctioneer Dossier
Steve Malone -
13.
Money Makers
-
14.
[Captured By Col. Benback, Part 1]
Captain Desmo -
15.
[Young Adventurer Narrowly Escapes Death in Battle with Attacking Shark!]
AdventurEvents -
16.
["There are approximately 4,000,000 amateur actors in America..."]
Tidbits -
17.
["Far up the Sang Do River Tom Brent guides a small junk..."]
Tom Brent -
18.
["Skip Schuyler, ace man of the U.S. Army Intelligence Department, has been stationed..."]
Skip Schuyler -
19.
[The Pirate Ship, Part 14]
Rusty and His Pals -
20.
Argentina Pulls Lion's Tail
Adventure in Stamps -
21.
["Our two heroes of the United States fleet, Don Kerry and "Red" Murphy..."]
Anchors Aweigh! -
22.
["Thanks again, boys and girls of America..."]
Movie Comics; All-American Comics -
23.
[no title indexed]
Spencer Fireworks Co.
This issue was modified by, among others
- Darci
- Katie
- Craig Delich
- Dan Kocher
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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